guidance in the teaching and learning activities which is issued by an institution in order to reach educational purposes. The reformation of curriculum is sometimes
done in order to improve or to develop the quality of education. It is aimed at helping the graduates have the capabilities, knowledge, and manners that can be
useful for the future, either when they apply for a job or when they want to continue their studies. And curriculum is a plan that is developed to make
teaching learning activities progress well. It is a kind of guidance in the teaching learning activities.
2.1.2 The 2006 English Curriculum or the School Based Curriculum
The 2006 Curriculum or School Based Curriculum is the operational curriculum made by and done by each unit of education KTSP 2007:1. School
Based Curriculum is arranged based on the students‟ potential development and needs for now and for the future with the consideration of the local and national
interest, and the global requirements with the spirit of the Management on the Basis of the School MBS.
School Based Curriculum develops and arranges based on the several principles.
First, it is arranged based on the students‟ potential, development, needs, and importance in their environment. Second, it is various and integrated.
Various here means that School Based Curriculum is arranged based on the students‟ characteristics, the situation of the environment, the level and the kinds
of education, etc. Integrated means to the relationship between the main and local subject, and the development of the students themselves. Third, it has to respond
to the science, arts, and technology development. Then, it should be relevant to
the lives‟ needs for now and for the future. The last is continue and overall. It means that School Based Curriculum should encompass the whole dimension of
the competencies aspects of knowledge. Moreover, the level of the education is also gradual and continual.
In School Based Curriculum for English subject of SMAMA 2007:277, SMA graduates should be able to achieve functional level for communication
spoken and written. The curriculum is also intended to develop skills of communication that is the skills of understanding andor creating spoken andor
written texts which are realized in four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing in order to be able to communicate fluently and to make
discours e in certain level of literacy. Dealing with text, students‟ tenth grade of
senior high school should be taught five kinds of text type. They are Recount, Narrative, Procedure, Descriptive, and News Item.
Based on the explanation above, it can be conclude that the objective of the 2006 English Curriculum for SMAMA are preparing the students‟ competition in
the global society by developing their communicative competence; spoken and written, and their understanding of the relationship between language and cu lture.
2.2 Textbook
